They are amazing things. They are all of the horror of war, all of the death, destruction and carnage of human conflict, all contained in a metal casing, where a single press of a button can do what used to take months of effort, thousands of tons of resources, manpower, planning, sweat and carnage.
Something we've cleverly reduced to the size of a suitcase, that in a single horrible flash, can simply erase the lives of tens to hundreds of thousands of fellow people. Incredibly destructive, so destructive that they almost "clean away" their own destructiveness.
They are simultaneously awe inspiring, terrifying, beautiful and horrifically ugly. The ultimate (so far) example of how humanity is driven to harnessing the inherent powers of nature and adapting the world around us into thing, an amazingly small and not that scary looking thing, that demonstrates our desire, ease and comfort with the concept of "destroying the other". Destruction that is so incredible in scale, that it dramatically and elegantly shows both how clever and ingenious we are as a species, and just how short sighted and dangerous we are as well.
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I will say, however, that I am quite proud that our species has managed to largely reduce our capability to destroy each other without regard. Slowly we are reducing stockpiles of CBN weapons.
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God damn it. Stop being so articulate and beautiful.
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Nuclear weapons are fascinating to me on a whole bunch of levels. "Trinity and Beyond" is a great documentary.
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Edited by Tartan 118: 6/20/2014 5:49:18 PMI wrote a poetic ramble a while back called 'The Inflictor' about the history of weaponry in general. I'll post it in this subthread in the near future.
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*Wipes away tear That was f***ing beautiful.
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Good -blam!-ing read
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Someone should make a rap out of this comment.